bluster

Conducted this week by correspondent Eric Cortellessa and top editor Sam Jacobs, the 11,000-word interview is in some ways an unremarkable artifact of the president’s usual tics: run-on sentences, bluster, insults, lies.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

Morgan and Quinn took a serious approach to their business, despite the bling and celebrity bluster.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Davis has since backtracked, insisting the claims were bluster and were created by a ghostwriter to sell books.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Suddenly, China’s stated mission to put people on the moon before 2030 seems less like bluster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

But as the day wore on, I realized he was mostly bluster.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

Mr. Xi blusters about Taiwan because he can’t say what he really fears from the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Myers is especially fine conveying a sort of shyness seasoned with bravado, along with various degrees of worry that only increase as she blusters her way into ever more perilous situations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

In his effort to spotlight racism and racially motivated violence, the subject of “Loudmouth” rails, showboats, declaims and blusters.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022

In the role of amped-up chrome-domed villain Dr. Robotnik, he blusters, he blathers, he snarks, he sneers and, above all, he shouts.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

"What are you bawling for?" blusters the warder....

From Through Russia by C. J. Hogarth

When they didn’t, he blustered over the course of half a dozen hearings, at one point threatening to bulldoze Brentwood’s pool or fill it with sand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024

Johnson blustered on until Sunday night, when it became clear he couldn’t count on the party’s right wing for support.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2022

“It’s not a trick question,” Mr. Poe blustered.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2021

It shows a violent blast of wind, and streaks of rain, beating a dun-colored landscape, as if a summer thunderstorm had missed its cue in June and blustered in six months later.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2020

He stared down Tyson until Tyson once more blustered about how fortunate Dill was that it was prom, grabbed Madison’s hand, and stomped away.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

Andy Serkis’s General Braddock is a blustering fool who refuses to take Washington’s sage advice seriously until it’s too late; as Mary, George’s mother, Mary-Louise Parker is a suffering saint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Students treat institutional rituals as a farce and openly mock their principal - calling him Yamdoot after the Hindu god of death - a blustering figure who addresses them as "My dear donkey".

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

“All right, Mongo’s home, Chicago!” bellowed the blustering Bear with long black hair tucked under his baseball cap.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024

Forecasters issued dire warnings about trying to drive through blustering winds and whiteout conditions, and Yosemite National Park was closed.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

“I worry that your father’s blustering about Erudite has been to your detriment.”

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth